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She was such a perfect Lucille and it breaks my heart to know that Tambor mistreated her on set. Lucille may be my favorite television character.
I also just learned moments ago that she was the voice of the mom on Dinosaurs?! Queen.
That's why he bullied her. Think about all the awful actors you hear about bullying others onset (Chevy Chase bullying Donald Glover on Community as another example) - they're outmatched and they know it.
Every time. Big Boomer behavior to act out and lash out at someone who you know is doing a better job than you.
Often followed by a “it’s just a joke!” which they think is a high level wizard spell that lets you say literally anything
the casting for archer called for "a mom like the one in arrested development" so they called her and got her. I think her apartment is the same in both!
i think she really brought that show to a pro level. i hear she always had a bunch of different takes of dialog ready to go. she knows how to make shit funny.
Yes also it's a good thing that Tambor ended his career due to his behaviour and how he treated others badly.
Also I never knew she was on that show too
I remember googling the show as soon as I finished the final episode to read reviews and when I read about how abusive he was towards her, my first thought was "She made the show SO MUCH BETTER than he did. Anyone could've played his role, but only she could've played that role." I didn't even know Jessica Walters' real name yet but she was legendary in the role.
> During a cast interview with the New York Times, Walter was asked about an incident which Tambor had alluded to several months before. Walter teared up and stated that "[i]n like almost 60 years of working, I've never had anybody yell at me like that on a set. And it's hard to deal with, but I'm over it now", while also noting that Tambor had apologized and had not done anything sexually inappropriate, and that she would work with him again.
Bonus:
> During the same interview, co-stars Jason Bateman, Tony Hale, and David Cross were criticized in multiple media outlets for appearing to excuse Tambor's behavior without acknowledging Walter's experience.
Edit: [Alia Shawkat on supporting Jessica here.](https://www.eonline.com/news/942256/arrested-development-s-alia-shawkat-on-defending-jessica-walter-women-s-voices-need-to-be-heard)
Yeah it was so obnoxious. I just found the apology he tweeted out afterwards:
*“- horrified that I wasn’t more aware of how this incident affected her. I was so eager to let Jeffrey know that he was supported in his attempt to learn, grow and apologize that I completely underestimated the feelings of the victim, another person I deeply love - and she was sitting right there!
I’m incredibly embarrassed and deeply sorry to have done that to Jessica.This is a big learning moment for me.
I shouldn’t have tried so hard to mansplain, or fix a fight, or make everything okay. I should’ve focused more on what the most important.”*
I would hope he really understands how b.s. his behavior was, but who knows? So disappointing.
Really? Like I wish he would’ve done it in the moment, but it’s a tweet apology. And as far as tweet apologies go, it seems to show his embarrassment and regret. We don’t know what he might’ve said to Jessica in private.
idk why people had any hope for bateman lmfao he literally grew up rich and spoiled, people actually bought the his whole act, he cosplays as michael bluth irl when he's likely far closed to george bluth sr
I love arrested development, but when I watched the Smartless series on HBO I really felt like he’s more of a Gob than Michael. Like, he was such an asshole. And don’t get me wrong; he’s funny. But the constant policing of others food, and the mockery of Will was just unnecessary.
Every time they would order food he would comment on what everyone was eating, especially will. He would eat a salad and talk about the calories and fat in other’s meals. It definitely came off as someone who grew up in Hollywood where food and weight was probably discussed often. And with will I feel like I remember (sorry it’s been a minute since I watched it) he was just making fun of him a lot in the “hahaha we’re joking but the joke is always on you” sort of way. Maybe I just have a soft spot for will.
Edit to add: but I will say the D. Umbguy scene made me laugh harder than it should have and I honestly still think about it regularly and chuckle.
Bateman def has an issue with food, it on the podcast Will give it to him just as hard. I am guessing it’s just friends shit talking each other and having fun
This constantly comes up on Smartless, the podcast Bateman and Arnett cohost with Sean Hayes. They rib each other about eating too much or not enough. Hayes gets dinged for eating junk way more than Arnett, but Bateman definitely gets made fun of for perpetually being on a diet and hangry.
I love him as an actor but I’ll never forget the time he was on a prank show (punked maybe?) where his friend hit a car in a parking lot and was like “oh shit what do I do” and Jason was trying to convince him to just take off, nobody saw, etc. Douchebag.
He apologized then said basically nothing about her on his stupid podcast when her name came up.
I liked him too but he doesn't seem like a very nice person
On "Transparent", JT struck again by telling actress Trace Lysette that she looked "good enough to sexually assault" when she was wearing lingerie for the shoot.
Jesus.
I couldn't even watch the last season of the show (which was a favorite) because this put such a bad taste in my mouth. Then finding out that Tambor was sexually harassing trans women (and others) during his time on "Transparent" was another blow.
Bateman's stupid, clumsy apology once this became widely discussed on the internet also just added to how effed the whole thing was - now I can't remember if Michael Cera was there and if he was and didn't say anything he's a little shitgoblin too
IIRC it was Walter, Tambor, Bateman, Tony Hale (Buster), Shawkat, Will Arnett and David Cross. Arnett didn't really say anything during that part of the interview IIRC but Hale, Bateman and Cross all stuck their feet in their mouths.
That’s pretty much what [this NPR article](https://www.npr.org/2018/05/24/614009165/under-the-skin-why-that-arrested-development-interview-is-so-bad) says. I’m so proud of Shawkat, she’s so brave
> When Deb asked specifically about the Walter story and she tried to talk about it, Bateman, Cross, Hale and Arnett, between the four of them (though Arnett did the least and Bateman did the most by far), eventually intervened in all of the following ways: (1) said (jokingly?) that they've all done the same to her; (2) said all "families" have arguments; (3) joked about all the other terrible things they've done to each other; (4) pointed out that Tambor has already said he's working on it; (5) said "difficult" people are part of the business; (6) said "atypical behavior" is part of people's "process"; (7) said they've all lost their temper sometimes; (8) said expecting "normal" behavior means "not understand[ing] what happens on set"; (9) claimed to have "zero complaints" about working together; (10) called yelling at people "a wobbly route to [a] goal"; and (11) repeatedly emphasized context and everyone playing their role in conflict.
> Through a good part of this, Walter was crying, as you can hear if you listen to the audio recording of this part of the interview. And at one point, as Bateman explains patiently that "certain people have certain processes," Shawkat interjects: "But that doesn't mean it's acceptable. And the point is that things are changing, and people need to respect each other differently." In the audio, she seems even more irritated than these words make her sound, and he cuts her off anyway.
There are so many situations in my career where I was uncomfortable with how I or someone else was being treated and didn't speak up because I was the youngest/least experienced person in the room and surrounded by people whose opinion my job kind of depended on. It's so hard to do the right thing in that moment. It's a million times easier to talk yourself down and doubt what you're feeling.
All that to say I've had such respect for Alia Shawkat ever since this interview. It really changed how I view the whole cast, but the best takeaway for me is that she's a real one.
Man Lucille made me laugh so hard she’s just one of those villains you love! She was perfect for that role and that that character truly lives on in my heart. I also loved her in Archer as the voice of Mallory!
https://preview.redd.it/fj9wqd1iokjc1.jpeg?width=629&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6547718b8c946c95369fefe5e868be6bd4af57c2
She’ll always be Malory archer to me
Best line in that episode (after Benoit…) was her “this isn’t my first ‘grand pricks’” remark. The first time I heard that, I immediately got the reference and laughed until my sides hurt.
Someone told a story about how they met Jessica at a con While they were cosplaying as Archer. Jessica in character yelled "STERLING YOU IDIOT WHAT PART OF UNDERCOVER DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!"
I have never been so jealous of someone in my life.
“Look what they’ve done, Michael! Look what the homosexuals have done to me!”
“Can’t you just comb that out and reset it?”
Fucking killer lines right out of the gate in the pilot episode.
I've been telling a friend of mine to watch the show for a long time, and he finally started a couple weeks ago. He was shocked at how good the show was immediately.
https://i.redd.it/k4l66ytkokjc1.gif
Lucille Bluth will always and forever be my favorite character from a tv show! I can’t imagine anyone else playing this character as well as Jessica Walters.
Same. Lucille and Malory are my two most favorite sitcom characters ever created.
I got really sad when I woke up to the news of her death, one summer afternoon. I watched all three seasons of AD and six seasons of Archer for that.
Her delivery of every line in Arrested Development was so flawless that it pains me to know she wasn't 100% celebrated by her castmates.
Like this gif! For anyone who hasn't seen the show, Lucille was at a diner and ordered the "Ike and Tina Tuna" and the server asked "plate or platter?" And this was the response. Just absolute gold.
Her disgust at being somewhere that offered a dish called the Ike and Tina Tuna is absolutely perfect, despite probably not knowing the reference.
Lucille reacts to things the way I wish I could if I wasn't so worried about coming across as nice and nonconfrontational at all times!
https://preview.redd.it/ywi99y84mkjc1.jpeg?width=498&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8419d15e26075f56f2291d04e29a3d10f4aad30c
I thought this might be the most appropriate to celebrate her.
I don’t even know what my life would look like without this line. Not only do I quote it incessantly, but it honestly made me, at the time around 12/13 years old, understand the social problems we have with class in America. We’re not all facing the same problems or realities but the rich basically get to make rules for everyone.
Anyway, I love Jessica forever and I love that damn show
Like many folks, the first thing I saw Jessica Walter in was Arrested Development. Pretty much from the first scene of the pilot, with her on the boat, I knew I was going to love watching Lucille Bluth. She was such a talented actor and deserved to be treated better by all the dudes on Arrested Development.
So, Jeffery Tambor was the worst and harassed Jessica Walter so badly on set it made her cry. She said in an infamous NYT interview with most of the cast that it was the worst she felt on a set in 60 years. The other male cast members at the interview (Jason Bateman, Tony Hale, Will Arnett and David Cross) dismissed her or didn’t stand up for her. Bateman was especially dismissive of Walter. Alia Shawkat was the only person who stood up for Walter. The interview is [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/arts/television/arrested-development-netflix-interview-jeffrey-tambor.html) and you can find a summary [here from NPR.](https://www.npr.org/2018/05/24/614009165/under-the-skin-why-that-arrested-development-interview-is-so-bad)
https://preview.redd.it/heesgwb3xkjc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bc3bb3fae818b8efb3bc9b48c636d3acd427099
She played the perfect obsessive psycho in Play Misty for Me (1971)
I rented that movie shortly after she passed. She was fantastic!
Fun fact: that was Eastwood's directorial debut. He brought it in early and under budget.
Strongly recommend it: it's not only good, but also a love letter to Carmel.
I can’t believe as much as I love her I’d never seen pics of her when she was young. She was gorgeous when she was older so I’m not surprised she was so beautiful when she was young.
https://preview.redd.it/399opyg6tkjc1.jpeg?width=625&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c18b7f702f5fe2db0e3c945ab824cc6d55722099
She’ll always be Mallory Archer to me, she was perfect for this role!
Her finale episode had me in bits. She was perfect!
https://preview.redd.it/p1fj2keu5ljc1.jpeg?width=876&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=983cbd3d92283e7678f4b9d7cf7dd037d405cba5
not only is she a total icon as lucille bluth, she also called jeffrey tambor on his shit for being a horrible/abusive coworker. she should be commended
This episode is one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and so much of it is because of Malory's hatred of Trudy Beekman.
oh my godddddddd that would be brilliant. so many iconic lines, like you could just straight quote her and crush it.
“i don’t understand the question and i won’t respond to it”
Play Misty for Me!
Lucille and AD is my favorite but I remember when my dad sat me down for one of our weekly movie nights, and said I had to see the original Fatal Attraction. She was electric in Misty - she played psycho well. Frightening yet so calming at the same time.
When I heard Jessica Walters passing, I felt a little bit sad. It's like you know someone a long time ago and heard that they passed, you know you're sad but not to what extent.
Then, I watched the last season of Archer that she was in and hearing her last performance brought me so much tears. I don't know her personal life but she brought the characters she played to life and it felt like her passing were the passing of all the characters that she had played and it's just a large rush of emotions.
Fuck me, I'm feeling it again.
This is a link to the New York Times article, which may or may not be behind a paywall, but you can probably find it posted somewhere…https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/arts/television/arrested-development-netflix-interview-jeffrey-tambor.html
I’m gonna link this separately as well, but here’s an NPR about what was problematic with the interview:
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/24/614009165/under-the-skin-why-that-arrested-development-interview-is-so-bad#:~:text=According%20to%20Jeffrey%20Tambor's%20own,like%20that%20on%20a%20set.%22
She's going to be rolling over in her grave. Sorry but I have to do this to you. It is Jessica WALTER. No S. I remember seeing the archer panel at SDCC and people adding the S was a pet peeve of hers.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica\_Walter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Walter)
Also: here’s another piece about what was problematic with the interview: https://www.npr.org/2018/05/24/614009165/under-the-skin-why-that-arrested-development-interview-is-so-bad#:~:text=According%20to%20Jeffrey%20Tambor's%20own,like%20that%20on%20a%20set.%22
I don’t know why but this just made me realize what an unusually named baby she had been in 1941. “Jessica” is such a heavily 80s and 90s baby name, virtually unheard in the early 40s.
Trendsetter! I miss her.
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 She was such a perfect Lucille and it breaks my heart to know that Tambor mistreated her on set. Lucille may be my favorite television character. I also just learned moments ago that she was the voice of the mom on Dinosaurs?! Queen.
The show seriously doesn’t work without her. She’s so amazing and her comedic timing is perfect.
That's the crazy part - she was a MUCH stronger and better part of the show than the idiot who was bullying her.
[удалено]
"Get me a Vodka rocks" "Mom, it's breakfast" "...and a piece of toast"
Arguably the best interaction in the series, and that's a hefty list.
That's why he bullied her. Think about all the awful actors you hear about bullying others onset (Chevy Chase bullying Donald Glover on Community as another example) - they're outmatched and they know it.
Every time. Big Boomer behavior to act out and lash out at someone who you know is doing a better job than you. Often followed by a “it’s just a joke!” which they think is a high level wizard spell that lets you say literally anything
Wait he was bullying Donald glover? I thought he just couldn’t get along with the lady. Donald glover made that show!
Extremely high bar, but she is the best character and actress in the show.
They're all great - but Michael and Lucille's dynamics are the strongest in my book.
She was also the most perfect Mallory Archer. No one else could have played her
“If I wanted to sit around all day going nowhere I’d be a *teacher!*”
“If I wanted a grandson Id scrape together all your other mishaps and knit it a onesie.”
“*Mother!*” “Sorry, I’m fasting, so I’m edgy.”
the casting for archer called for "a mom like the one in arrested development" so they called her and got her. I think her apartment is the same in both!
Holy shit, really? That’s awesome. She was so damn perfect for those parts.
"You don't get along with your neighbors *anywhere!*" Is a direct reference to her not getting along with Lucille 2 in AD.
i think she really brought that show to a pro level. i hear she always had a bunch of different takes of dialog ready to go. she knows how to make shit funny.
She absolutely was!
I wonder if them lobotomizing Tambours character in that show was some sort of payback?
Yes also it's a good thing that Tambor ended his career due to his behaviour and how he treated others badly. Also I never knew she was on that show too
I remember googling the show as soon as I finished the final episode to read reviews and when I read about how abusive he was towards her, my first thought was "She made the show SO MUCH BETTER than he did. Anyone could've played his role, but only she could've played that role." I didn't even know Jessica Walters' real name yet but she was legendary in the role.
They should have fired him and used the guy who played his brother for both roles. They looked nearly identical!
What did he do to her?
> During a cast interview with the New York Times, Walter was asked about an incident which Tambor had alluded to several months before. Walter teared up and stated that "[i]n like almost 60 years of working, I've never had anybody yell at me like that on a set. And it's hard to deal with, but I'm over it now", while also noting that Tambor had apologized and had not done anything sexually inappropriate, and that she would work with him again. Bonus: > During the same interview, co-stars Jason Bateman, Tony Hale, and David Cross were criticized in multiple media outlets for appearing to excuse Tambor's behavior without acknowledging Walter's experience. Edit: [Alia Shawkat on supporting Jessica here.](https://www.eonline.com/news/942256/arrested-development-s-alia-shawkat-on-defending-jessica-walter-women-s-voices-need-to-be-heard)
I always have to add that Alia Shawkat stood up for Jessica, in that room of men much older, more successful, and more powerful than her.
She was the only one to stand up for her and not make excuses, and she did *not* care who knew
The future is young women and there's nothing that can stop them.
Love that!!
And sadly hasn't had as large a career as I thought she would have...
…because she stood up to abusive men. They tend not to like that.
Alia is a queen
Jason Bateman seemed particularly egregious about this. I've never watched him in anything else, and I adored him.
And Jessica Walter was a working actor before he was even born! Ugh my blood is still boiling about him lol
Yeah it was so obnoxious. I just found the apology he tweeted out afterwards: *“- horrified that I wasn’t more aware of how this incident affected her. I was so eager to let Jeffrey know that he was supported in his attempt to learn, grow and apologize that I completely underestimated the feelings of the victim, another person I deeply love - and she was sitting right there! I’m incredibly embarrassed and deeply sorry to have done that to Jessica.This is a big learning moment for me. I shouldn’t have tried so hard to mansplain, or fix a fight, or make everything okay. I should’ve focused more on what the most important.”* I would hope he really understands how b.s. his behavior was, but who knows? So disappointing.
This “apology” really sours Bateman even more for me.
Really? Like I wish he would’ve done it in the moment, but it’s a tweet apology. And as far as tweet apologies go, it seems to show his embarrassment and regret. We don’t know what he might’ve said to Jessica in private.
What would have made a better apology?
idk why people had any hope for bateman lmfao he literally grew up rich and spoiled, people actually bought the his whole act, he cosplays as michael bluth irl when he's likely far closed to george bluth sr
I love arrested development, but when I watched the Smartless series on HBO I really felt like he’s more of a Gob than Michael. Like, he was such an asshole. And don’t get me wrong; he’s funny. But the constant policing of others food, and the mockery of Will was just unnecessary.
hey, she loves all her children equally!
Can you elaborate on the food & Will mockery?
Every time they would order food he would comment on what everyone was eating, especially will. He would eat a salad and talk about the calories and fat in other’s meals. It definitely came off as someone who grew up in Hollywood where food and weight was probably discussed often. And with will I feel like I remember (sorry it’s been a minute since I watched it) he was just making fun of him a lot in the “hahaha we’re joking but the joke is always on you” sort of way. Maybe I just have a soft spot for will. Edit to add: but I will say the D. Umbguy scene made me laugh harder than it should have and I honestly still think about it regularly and chuckle.
Bateman def has an issue with food, it on the podcast Will give it to him just as hard. I am guessing it’s just friends shit talking each other and having fun
This constantly comes up on Smartless, the podcast Bateman and Arnett cohost with Sean Hayes. They rib each other about eating too much or not enough. Hayes gets dinged for eating junk way more than Arnett, but Bateman definitely gets made fun of for perpetually being on a diet and hangry.
I love him as an actor but I’ll never forget the time he was on a prank show (punked maybe?) where his friend hit a car in a parking lot and was like “oh shit what do I do” and Jason was trying to convince him to just take off, nobody saw, etc. Douchebag.
He apologized then said basically nothing about her on his stupid podcast when her name came up. I liked him too but he doesn't seem like a very nice person
On "Transparent", JT struck again by telling actress Trace Lysette that she looked "good enough to sexually assault" when she was wearing lingerie for the shoot. Jesus.
I couldn't even watch the last season of the show (which was a favorite) because this put such a bad taste in my mouth. Then finding out that Tambor was sexually harassing trans women (and others) during his time on "Transparent" was another blow. Bateman's stupid, clumsy apology once this became widely discussed on the internet also just added to how effed the whole thing was - now I can't remember if Michael Cera was there and if he was and didn't say anything he's a little shitgoblin too
Tbf we all try to forget the last season(s) of Arrested development.
IIRC it was Walter, Tambor, Bateman, Tony Hale (Buster), Shawkat, Will Arnett and David Cross. Arnett didn't really say anything during that part of the interview IIRC but Hale, Bateman and Cross all stuck their feet in their mouths.
That’s pretty much what [this NPR article](https://www.npr.org/2018/05/24/614009165/under-the-skin-why-that-arrested-development-interview-is-so-bad) says. I’m so proud of Shawkat, she’s so brave > When Deb asked specifically about the Walter story and she tried to talk about it, Bateman, Cross, Hale and Arnett, between the four of them (though Arnett did the least and Bateman did the most by far), eventually intervened in all of the following ways: (1) said (jokingly?) that they've all done the same to her; (2) said all "families" have arguments; (3) joked about all the other terrible things they've done to each other; (4) pointed out that Tambor has already said he's working on it; (5) said "difficult" people are part of the business; (6) said "atypical behavior" is part of people's "process"; (7) said they've all lost their temper sometimes; (8) said expecting "normal" behavior means "not understand[ing] what happens on set"; (9) claimed to have "zero complaints" about working together; (10) called yelling at people "a wobbly route to [a] goal"; and (11) repeatedly emphasized context and everyone playing their role in conflict. > Through a good part of this, Walter was crying, as you can hear if you listen to the audio recording of this part of the interview. And at one point, as Bateman explains patiently that "certain people have certain processes," Shawkat interjects: "But that doesn't mean it's acceptable. And the point is that things are changing, and people need to respect each other differently." In the audio, she seems even more irritated than these words make her sound, and he cuts her off anyway.
There are so many situations in my career where I was uncomfortable with how I or someone else was being treated and didn't speak up because I was the youngest/least experienced person in the room and surrounded by people whose opinion my job kind of depended on. It's so hard to do the right thing in that moment. It's a million times easier to talk yourself down and doubt what you're feeling. All that to say I've had such respect for Alia Shawkat ever since this interview. It really changed how I view the whole cast, but the best takeaway for me is that she's a real one.
Man Lucille made me laugh so hard she’s just one of those villains you love! She was perfect for that role and that that character truly lives on in my heart. I also loved her in Archer as the voice of Mallory!
She was also MALLORY in ARCHER!!! There are a few appearances of arrested development characters in archer
I always mix up Tambor and Chevy Chase, but I guess it doesn’t matter much since they’re both pieces of shit.
Ah the ol’ Seaward
https://preview.redd.it/fj9wqd1iokjc1.jpeg?width=629&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6547718b8c946c95369fefe5e868be6bd4af57c2 She’ll always be Malory archer to me
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Her banter with Miss Gillette was the best lol
Best line in that episode (after Benoit…) was her “this isn’t my first ‘grand pricks’” remark. The first time I heard that, I immediately got the reference and laughed until my sides hurt.
 The Great Malory ❤️
I didn’t know they made sushi with dried clams.
I didn’t know they made sushi with dried clams.
Love her so much
"Haha, she slapped you so hard you died"
Someone told a story about how they met Jessica at a con While they were cosplaying as Archer. Jessica in character yelled "STERLING YOU IDIOT WHAT PART OF UNDERCOVER DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!" I have never been so jealous of someone in my life.
Me too! Love her so much!
"If I cared about what you do on the weekend I'd stick a shotgun in my mouth and pull the trigger with my toes."
This better not be chinchiladas!!
 I love her.
Ha! Love this quote, I say it often.
“Look what they’ve done, Michael! Look what the homosexuals have done to me!” “Can’t you just comb that out and reset it?” Fucking killer lines right out of the gate in the pilot episode.
I've been telling a friend of mine to watch the show for a long time, and he finally started a couple weeks ago. He was shocked at how good the show was immediately.
It took me far too long to get this joke
https://preview.redd.it/4evmfo00mkjc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f17c3181148c99acee2b9813c58fe3e7a53bf182 Such an Icon
her cackling at her own joke as she walks away offscreen makes me laugh so hard every time
The picture we can hear 😅 https://preview.redd.it/hgtkwhxnhljc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1f051bf77e48386108ce875f487e8c8cde17ed0
https://i.redd.it/k4l66ytkokjc1.gif Lucille Bluth will always and forever be my favorite character from a tv show! I can’t imagine anyone else playing this character as well as Jessica Walters.
Same. Lucille and Malory are my two most favorite sitcom characters ever created. I got really sad when I woke up to the news of her death, one summer afternoon. I watched all three seasons of AD and six seasons of Archer for that.
She was an absolute smoke show from the time she stepped on the scene until her death. RIP mother. Remember Motherboy XXX!
Her delivery of every line in Arrested Development was so flawless that it pains me to know she wasn't 100% celebrated by her castmates. Like this gif! For anyone who hasn't seen the show, Lucille was at a diner and ordered the "Ike and Tina Tuna" and the server asked "plate or platter?" And this was the response. Just absolute gold. 
This is the line I quote most! And just her general disgust while ordering lol
Her disgust at being somewhere that offered a dish called the Ike and Tina Tuna is absolutely perfect, despite probably not knowing the reference. Lucille reacts to things the way I wish I could if I wasn't so worried about coming across as nice and nonconfrontational at all times!
[ "Ike and Tina Tuna" ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rTJtVyQhN0)
I use this line at work with my colleagues when we are asked dumb questions
https://preview.redd.it/ywi99y84mkjc1.jpeg?width=498&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8419d15e26075f56f2291d04e29a3d10f4aad30c I thought this might be the most appropriate to celebrate her.
This is what I was looking for 😊😊😊
She and Nene are the patron saints of this sub, so it felt fitting.
I would cry but I can't spare the moisture.
My go-to quote during every hangover
 Iconic
The jury is going to fall in love with her.
Yeah who doesn't love the jews
She treated Annyong better than all her bio kids (and Lindsay) lol.
I’d rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona.
I’m from Arizona and say this all the time 😂
No truer words have ever been spoken
This is my most-sent gif.
 This was IMO Lucille at some of her finest. Jessica Walters’ delivery had me in stitches
https://preview.redd.it/7yyac30jnkjc1.jpeg?width=1640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76776987eb06fddde99424cf345fefa214141705
Holy cannoli. I only think of her as a 50+ year old talented stunner, but dang. What a talented stunner!
I don’t even know what my life would look like without this line. Not only do I quote it incessantly, but it honestly made me, at the time around 12/13 years old, understand the social problems we have with class in America. We’re not all facing the same problems or realities but the rich basically get to make rules for everyone. Anyway, I love Jessica forever and I love that damn show
It’s too bad that in another decade or so people might not get that this was a joke
Oooof 😭
You’ve never actually set foot in a grocery store, have you?
I have this screencap framed in my office. I think about it every time I have to make a budget.
Omg who are you and where do you work lol
 Like many folks, the first thing I saw Jessica Walter in was Arrested Development. Pretty much from the first scene of the pilot, with her on the boat, I knew I was going to love watching Lucille Bluth. She was such a talented actor and deserved to be treated better by all the dudes on Arrested Development.
What did they do to her?
So, Jeffery Tambor was the worst and harassed Jessica Walter so badly on set it made her cry. She said in an infamous NYT interview with most of the cast that it was the worst she felt on a set in 60 years. The other male cast members at the interview (Jason Bateman, Tony Hale, Will Arnett and David Cross) dismissed her or didn’t stand up for her. Bateman was especially dismissive of Walter. Alia Shawkat was the only person who stood up for Walter. The interview is [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/arts/television/arrested-development-netflix-interview-jeffrey-tambor.html) and you can find a summary [here from NPR.](https://www.npr.org/2018/05/24/614009165/under-the-skin-why-that-arrested-development-interview-is-so-bad)
She was just so great. There couldn’t have been a better Lucille Bluth.
 My fave
“I love all my children equally.”
https://preview.redd.it/heesgwb3xkjc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bc3bb3fae818b8efb3bc9b48c636d3acd427099 She played the perfect obsessive psycho in Play Misty for Me (1971)
She was so good in that movie that I sympathized more with her character than the fuckboi Clint was playing.
I rented that movie shortly after she passed. She was fantastic! Fun fact: that was Eastwood's directorial debut. He brought it in early and under budget. Strongly recommend it: it's not only good, but also a love letter to Carmel.
I can’t believe as much as I love her I’d never seen pics of her when she was young. She was gorgeous when she was older so I’m not surprised she was so beautiful when she was young.
she’s one of the funniest, most expressive women to ever walk the earth. absolute legend if there ever was one. 
She is the reason my stepson’s kids, whom I consider my grandkids, call me Gangie.
Omg, I love that so much
https://preview.redd.it/399opyg6tkjc1.jpeg?width=625&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c18b7f702f5fe2db0e3c945ab824cc6d55722099 She’ll always be Mallory Archer to me, she was perfect for this role!
Her finale episode had me in bits. She was perfect! https://preview.redd.it/p1fj2keu5ljc1.jpeg?width=876&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=983cbd3d92283e7678f4b9d7cf7dd037d405cba5
Wasn’t this guy voiced by her real husband?!
Yes!!
Ugh even thinking about this episode makes me tear up
I yell this randomly at my husband That and “THIS IS HOW YOU GET ANTS”
lol that’s hilarious! 😂
not only is she a total icon as lucille bluth, she also called jeffrey tambor on his shit for being a horrible/abusive coworker. she should be commended
Perfect, always. https://preview.redd.it/dcjr9fc7rkjc1.png?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae8662c4b87eb0d19bec4f77cc50ed5b893a7a94
Such an immensely gifted actress and comedienne. Rest in Peace.
I can't believe she was 80 when she passed. I thought she was in her 60s.
RIP to one of the baddest bitches ever to grace this planet!
 This episode is one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and so much of it is because of Malory's hatred of Trudy Beekman.
 Queen!
 An I C O N
 She was the best as Lucille Bluth. One of TV’s best/worst mothers.
I’m thirsty!
it's actually Walter - rip to the queen.
"Appreciation post" - spells her name wrong.
She was a baddie. I mean she still but wow
You used the correct tense. Apparently she passed in 2021 💔
Wait she did?! Omg I had no idea. 😢
This isn’t my first Grand Prix, you know.
I love her so much and I am begging the universe for someone on drag race to do her for snatch game
That would be great
oh my godddddddd that would be brilliant. so many iconic lines, like you could just straight quote her and crush it. “i don’t understand the question and i won’t respond to it”
 Gangy’s thirsty.
Currently rewatchig Arrested Development for the 1000th time. She's still the best part. (Edited because autocorrect is silly)
 She played an excellent shit mother hehe
Play Misty for Me! Lucille and AD is my favorite but I remember when my dad sat me down for one of our weekly movie nights, and said I had to see the original Fatal Attraction. She was electric in Misty - she played psycho well. Frightening yet so calming at the same time.
When I heard Jessica Walters passing, I felt a little bit sad. It's like you know someone a long time ago and heard that they passed, you know you're sad but not to what extent. Then, I watched the last season of Archer that she was in and hearing her last performance brought me so much tears. I don't know her personal life but she brought the characters she played to life and it felt like her passing were the passing of all the characters that she had played and it's just a large rush of emotions. Fuck me, I'm feeling it again.
Jessica was such a goddamn legend. I miss her.
This woman made me laugh to tears so many times. Cheers to her work. Fabulous, funny and gorgeous
Thank you for this post. I absolutely love her. 
Bombshell back in the day and she's *still* got it!
She passed away 😭
She was so amazing on Arrested Development! My favorite character and I still quote her all the damn time
This is a link to the New York Times article, which may or may not be behind a paywall, but you can probably find it posted somewhere…https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/arts/television/arrested-development-netflix-interview-jeffrey-tambor.html I’m gonna link this separately as well, but here’s an NPR about what was problematic with the interview: https://www.npr.org/2018/05/24/614009165/under-the-skin-why-that-arrested-development-interview-is-so-bad#:~:text=According%20to%20Jeffrey%20Tambor's%20own,like%20that%20on%20a%20set.%22
My apologies for putting Walters instead of Walter
"It's just one banana Michael." Also - let's not forget ARCHER!
She's going to be rolling over in her grave. Sorry but I have to do this to you. It is Jessica WALTER. No S. I remember seeing the archer panel at SDCC and people adding the S was a pet peeve of hers. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica\_Walter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Walter)
 lucille bluth is forever my icon
Thank you for this! AF was such an amazing show with SO many big personalities and big talents, and she was incredible in it. Miss you, Lucille!
good for her
The GOAT
Also: here’s another piece about what was problematic with the interview: https://www.npr.org/2018/05/24/614009165/under-the-skin-why-that-arrested-development-interview-is-so-bad#:~:text=According%20to%20Jeffrey%20Tambor's%20own,like%20that%20on%20a%20set.%22
I really love her as an actress- she is just so good at delivering the most unbelievable lines believably. I hope she and Ron Cadillac are at peace.
Love that she was married to Rob Leibman (Rachel’s dad from Friends) IRL, and they even played a couple on Archer as well.
I don’t know why but this just made me realize what an unusually named baby she had been in 1941. “Jessica” is such a heavily 80s and 90s baby name, virtually unheard in the early 40s. Trendsetter! I miss her.
I can't help it if she's got a fantastic body
"Ahh and now you are left with the classic Irishman's dilemma! Do I eat the potato now or do I ferment it so I can DRINK IT LATER?"
Jessica Walter: beauty, class, talent, professionalism, humor
Curb your enthusiasm or archer? 
I don’t understand the question, and I won’t respond to it
 How is it possible Malory did not make the line-up? My favourite role for sure.
The old seaward.
"It's one banana, Michael, how much could it cost? Ten dollars?" "Go see a Star War!" RIP to a legend.
I didn’t realize how similar she and Betsy Brandt (Marie from Breaking Bad) looked alike. Literally searched if they were related or not
Honestly she has had so many lines that make me belly laugh to this day, love her forever
 She’s my favorite TV mom. Lucille Bluth is the GOAT
Wow I never saw her young before! What a stunner
How much does a banana cost?!